The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-30
COM MENT AND OPINION.

THE Fidelity Bank prisoners have decided to
remain in Jail until the excitement dies out"
This is their version of it. To man up a tree
it looks as if they would remain in Jail until
confidence can be restored. Chicago Herald.
THE Fidelity Bank. of Cincinnati, had the usual
president who didn't preside and directors who
didn't direct and visited by examiner who
didn't examine; but then the vice president weed
enough to make up for all of them.-Philadel-
phia Times.
SECRETARY FAIRcHILD will certainly not
attempt to relieve the money market by, buying
bonds at premium if the law permits him TO
redeem them at par. Attorney General Gar
lands opinion this subject would De oppor-
tune. and, perhaps, instructive. National Re-
publican,
NOBODY seems to have been responsible for
the recent furry in Wall street. Mr.. Gould
wasn't, Mr.. Sage wasn't, Mr. Field wasn't, in
fact. nobody was Perhaps the lambs battered
their own stocks down in order that they might
sell them at sacrifice. Lambs do queer things
very often.-Philadelphia Times.
A FOLLOWER of Henry George asks him if the
confscation of land is a good thing for the poor.
why wouldn't the confiscaton of capital be
good thing also; and Mr.. George halts and says
that if the land experiment is successful, per-
haps 1t would be we'll to confscate capital Mr.
George appears to be very fine citizen indeed.
Atlanta Constitution.
ALL things considered, it is just possible that
Plymouth Church could find in the United
States a successor to Mr. Beecher rather better
fitted to fill its pulpit, more intelligenily and
wisely. than Dr. Parker. of London. 1t will be
case no domestic one can be found equally good.
Philadelphia Inquirer
LET the Treasury be kept independent of
Wall street, and Congress alone be powered to
gauge the necessities of critical situation and
make proper provision for them To Congress
alone, as the direct representative of the people,
should snsn be IN n. !. Is !,
head of Observation-Disclosures Critic.
DR. McGLYNN should 60 back to school and
act little child there, for he has much to
which he is yet unacquainted that are vitality re-
lated to the topic which he presumes to
enlighten his fellows. and apparently the basic
principles of political economy have yet to form
a part of his curriculum.-Chicago Tribune
BY any act of his own should President
Cleveland withdraw from the field candi
date for re election to the presidency, New York
State would be blind. indeed, did she omit to
that there is in the Mayor of her great city a
statesman in the true sense of the word. 1t will
be bad day for the Democratic party when it
declines to honor such men as Abram >. Hewitt.
Boston Herald.
WHY IL should be against the laws or nearly
every State in the Union to bet money on the
turn of a card, and at the same time perfectly
legitimate bet the price of wheat or stocks,
is one of the conundrums that puzzle honest
citizens Why common gambler should be
regarded as social outcast, and stock or grain
speculator De looked up to leading citizen.
is one of the ldiosy ncracies of the times.-Mnne-
apolis Tribune.
The Democratic party exists to-day because
there is in certain States a malignant rebelism
of feeling tremendously powerful, which lifts to
high office and honor men conspicuous only by
their crimes against the Union, which binds
together in a league of lawbreakers million
survivors of the rebellion and their descendants
to defeat and nullify constitutional amendments
and all laws to secure freedom of suffrage. That
Is the power which Mr.. Cleveland represents.
New York Tribune.
THE declaration af Governor Ross, of Texas,
that the heroes of the federal and confederate
armies swere all cast in the same grand mold of
self-sacrifcing patriotism sounds well. rhetor-
ically speaking; but if it were true, then we
should be obliged to regard the war as q contest
which involved nothing but question of
physical courage and endurance, and that would
be to make history absurd. There was very
decided difference between the causes for which
the armies fought; and amount of
sophistry can obliterate the solemn truth
that one was distinctly right and the other dis
tinctly wrong.-St. Louis Globe Democrat